Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1 Hard Questions in Democratic Theory -- Alternative Conceptions of the Relation of Justice and Democracy -- The Requirements of Justice and the Limitation of Democracy -- The Constitutional Circle -- Rights and Reciprocity -- Care and Democratic Community -- Justice, Rights, and Difference -- 2 Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism -- Abstract Universality, Human Beings, and Development -- Concrete Universality and Human Rights -- The Genesis of Intersociative Norms -- Universality and Normative Critique -- PART II DEMOCRACY AND RIGHTS, PERSONALIZED AND PLURALIZED -- 3 Embodied Politics -- Feminist Approaches to the Body -- Views of Embodiment in Political Philosophy -- Embodiment, Agency, and Community -- 4 Racism and Democracy -- Racism and Existing Democratic Frameworks -- Conceptual Connections -- Democracy and Socially Constructed Characteristics: Racial Versus Cultural Identities -- Intercultural Democratic Communities -- Economic Democracy and Racial Divisiveness -- 5 Cultural Identity, Group Rights, and Social Ontology -- Groups as Constituted Entities -- Norms and Ontology -- How to Derive Group Rights from Individual Rights -- Oppressed Groups and Group Rights -- Constraints on Group Rights for Cultural Minorities -- From Separatism to Interculturalism -- Culture and State: Alternative Models -- Nation-States and Culture in the Context of Globalization -- 6 Conceptualizing Women's Human Rights -- Outstanding Theoretical Questions Concerning Women's Rights -- Care and Human Rights -- The Public-Private Distinction -- Women's Social and Economic Rights -- The Status of Differentiated Rights for Women.

Traditional Cultures Versus Women's Equality in a Human Rights Framework -- PART III GLOBALIZING DEMOCRACY IN A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK -- 7 Evaluating the Claims for Global Democracy -- Globalization and Democracy -- Models of Global or Cosmopolitan Democracy -- Some Implications for Cosmopolitical Democracy -- 8 Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible in the Context of Globalization? -- The Development of Human Rights Law and the Framework of Globalization -- Elaboration of the Problem -- Two Approaches to This Issue: Beetham and Dworkin -- Some Proposals -- 9 The Global Democratic Deficit and Economic Human Rights -- Current Proposals for Democratizing Globalization Processes -- The Global, the Local, and Eliminating the Democratic Deficit -- Criteria for Democratic Participation in Global Institutions -- Relating Democracy and Human Rights -- PART IV CURRENT APPLICATIONS -- 10 Democratic Management and the Stakeholder Idea -- Normative Justifications for Democratic Management and Stakeholder Theory -- The Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory and the Requirement for Participative Management -- 11 Democratic Networks -- Technology and Politics -- Democracy and Networking Principles -- Globalization and the New Media -- Does the Net Facilitate Democratic Decision Making? -- 12 Terrorism, Empathy, and Democracy -- Defining Terrorism -- Terrorism and Empathy -- Terrorism and Democracy -- Index.